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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!milano!cactus.org!wixer!rhodesia
- From: rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org (Felix S. Gallo)
- Subject: the infamous setjmp
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.044739.6866@wixer.cactus.org>
- Followup-To: poster
- Summary: hmm
- Keywords: setjmp, gcc
- Organization: Real/Time Communications
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 04:47:39 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- Alright, color me vaguely confused, but:
-
- I installed gcc2.2.2d the other day, even going so far as to
- read the readme and the faq. Neither of them were particularly
- informational, but I ended up getting it together, putting the
- right files in /usr/install/gcc2, failing to rename them, and
- executing the script.
-
- But now a bunch of programs fail to compile, most notably
- including xcomm -- because of the 'setjmp programs won't
- work' problem noted in this file and the gcc files.
-
- My questions:
-
- 1) when will they? I recently accidentally annihilated my
- copy of xcomm, and now I'm relegated to using kermit until I
- fall back to a previous version of gcc or until the problem
- gets fixed. Since falling back is considerable effort and
- time, I wanna get an estimate.
-
- 2) why won't they? I vaguely remember ol' H.J. filling half
- my screen with a bunch of repeated warnings and admonitions
- to read the faq, but he never got around to any sort of
- explanations, not even in the faq.
-
- Lest anyone miscomprehend (or worse, say 'read the faq' again),
- I'm perfectly willing to rewrite any install document or FAQ
- handed to me in pure, simple English, and in fact offer to do
- so for the next gcc release.
-
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- Felix Sebastian Gallo rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org
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